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CIO Bulletin Names CynergisTek As One of the “30 Most Valuable Companies to Watch 2019”

May 1, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2019--CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance, today announced that CIO Bulletin has named it among the “ 30 Most Valuable Companies to Watch 2019.” CIO Bulletin is an interactive, preeminent leadership platform serving as a central resource for information on business and information technology (IT) leaders and their entrepreneurial ventures. The company’s mission is to support business leaders as well as the technologically advanced ecosystem that surrounds and interacts with them to unfurl organizational innovation in the business and IT world.

CynergisTek has been at the forefront of cybersecurity and privacy for healthcare organizations since 2004 and was created to address the healthcare industry’s primary need for protecting patients’ data from cyber-attacks and breaches. The company started out providing security assessments and remediation services, and evolved over time with input from their healthcare clients to adapt to their changing needs, migrating to the more managed service-centric model they have today.

“ CIO Bulletin’s ‘30 Most Valuable Companies to Watch 2019’ is a premier recognition program which identifies companies that have the most innovative approach towards understanding the market trends and exceptional problem solving techniques in the field of business and technology,” said J.P. Pande, Editor-in-Chief of the CIO Bulletin. “The publication recognized CynergisTek based on its customer retention health, employee centered management approach, openness to innovation, collaborations, financial status, ability to forecast future technology trends, and commitment to excellence.”

CynergisTek upgrades its solutions regularly to match trends and keep their services relevant to clients in this fast-moving technology world, adding a new product or service to its shelf about every six months. Their focus is not only on the current state of the industry, but also on the trends that could have an impact on client business in the future. Staying in front of clients’ needs and engaging with customers to help handle problems from their perspective is a key part of CynergisTek’s success. The company currently serves over 1,400 hospitals and business associates nationwide.

“We are honored to be recognized by CIO Bulletin in this way,” said Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek. “Our company was founded on providing solutions and services that our customers and healthcare need and can count on. Much of our success in maintaining long term clients is due to our ability to continue to innovate and develop the solutions they require and this recognition is a further proof point of our success in doing so.”

CynergisTek is a top-ranked cybersecurity firm dedicated to serving the information assurance needs of the healthcare industry. CynergisTek offers specialized services and solutions to help organizations achieve privacy, security, and compliance goals. Since 2004, the company has served as a partner to hundreds of healthcare organizations and is dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant industry associations. The company has been recognized by KLAS in the 2016 and 2018 Cybersecurity reports as a top performing firm in healthcare cybersecurity, as well as the 2017 Best in KLAS winner for Cybersecurity Advisory Services.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to the business of CynergisTek that can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “may” or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties relating to product/service development, long and uncertain sales cycles, the ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection, market acceptance, future capital requirements, competition from other providers, the ability of our vendors to continue supplying the company with equipment, parts, supplies and services at comparable terms and prices and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Some of these risks and uncertainties are or will be described in greater detail in our Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. CynergisTek is under no obligation (and expressly disclaims any such obligation) to update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.